Ringerike - Drammen Districts Bygdelag
Genealogy Research Links

ONLINE DATA RESEARCH SITES

Arkivverket Digitalarkivet
The Digital Archives is a public service from the National Archives of Norway. Here you can search in transcribed source material for free.

Digitised parish registers
This is a new service from The Digital Archives, offering you browsing and presentation of digitised parish registers (as images). It is an extension of the already established service from 1998 that offers you searchable databases of transcribed sources

Eigel Elsrud Emigration List
This is a list of people who emigrated to America from Ringerike in the years from 1839 to 1852. The areas in Ringerike listed are Norderhov, Hole and Aadalen. From 1839 to 1860 Aadalen is included as part of Norderhov. The Lundes and Vikers were from Aadalen.

The Norwegian Historical Data Centre The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø (UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. Search in databases: The censuses on 1865, 1875 og 1900 is nationwide, except the census on 1875. To search in the censuses you can use a easy version or a advanced version. Parish registers for some parishes.

Norway Heritage Passenger Lists and Emigrant
100 years of emigrant ships from Norway Find information about an emigrant ship or line. Search Trond Austheim's database of passenger ship arrivals around the world, as reported in the newspapers 1870-1894. Browse the Index of Norwegian departures 1825 - 1925:Search by emigrant names. Site also includes interesting articles and helps for newbies.

Promise of America-Norwegian Emigration to America, 1825-2000
This bilingual, multimedia website features a representative selection of Norwegian-American materials

MAPS

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derdubor hvor

RESEARCH CENTERS, ORGANIZATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS

Norwegian-American Genealogical Center and Naeseth Library (NAGC & NL) is a leading research center for Norwegian-American genealogy and family history. Visit us to research your roots, or send us your inquiry - we are here to help you. Now, we offer more assistance online than ever before. Our special Online Database Subscription Service is now available!

Norwegian-American Historical Association (NAHA) The goal of the Norwegian-American Historical Association is to locate, collect, preserve and interpret the Norwegian-American part of this whole with accuracy, integrity, and liveliness. In doing so, Norwegian Americans will have an identifiable position in America's past, present, and future.The NAHA Archives can be a rich resource of information for family historians and genealogists.

SITES WITH RESEARCH INFORMATION AND LINKS

Buskerud - Norwegian Genealogy Resources
A brief discription of Buskerud and an extensive list of links to Organizations, resources, maps, museums and genealogy query pages.

Norwegian Geographical and Administrative
General reference. Chart defining the Geographical Civil Judicial Districts Ecclesiastical

Online English to Norwegian to English dictionary

The Promise of AmericaNorwegian Emigration to America and NorwegianAmerican History 1825-2000. Not a whole lot on this website but what is there is interesting; especially the Timeline.

Velkommen to Norway Genealogy- Norwegian family history resource Part of the WorldGenWeb and CenEuroGenWeb. Through this web site you will find links to Norwegian bygdeboker, census, emigration, farm and parish listings, history, lookup volunteers, message (query) boards, and a variety of other useful links.

Welcome to Ancestors From Norway This website was created in 1996 to provide a road map to various Internet resources on Norwegian - American genealogy. Since then, Ancestors from Norway has grown to over one hundred separate web pages, and now contains several original articles on how to trace your Norwegian ancestors, as well as numerous links to genealogy-related web sites in Norway and the U.S. The articles you will find on this web site provide detailed information on how to use various Norwegian genealogy sources such as census records, church records, and "bygdebøker". In addition, there are several articles that provide background information on such topics as the Norwegian patronymic naming system.

MUSEUMS

Ringerikes Museum
Ringerikes Museum er distriktsmuseum for Hole og Ringerike kommuner i Buskerud fylke. Sammen med oss finner du også Buskerud Fylkesfotoarkiv, som er ansvarlig organ for det offisielle fotobevaringsarbeidet i hele fylket.

Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
523 W Water St, Decorah Iowa; email: info@vesterheim.org. Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum embodies the living heritage of Norwegian immigrants to America. Sharing this cultural legacy can inspire people of all backgrounds to celebrate tradition.

MESSAGE BOARDS AND MAILING LISTS

Buskerud Message Board at Rootsweb              NOR-Buskerud Mailing List at Rootsweb

TRAVEL AND TOURIST INFO

Hole kommune [available in english] Tourist Information Hole is a small community of about 6000 inhabitants, in the county of Buskerud, Norway, lying at the Tyrifjord, the 4th largest lake in Norway, 50 km northwest of Oslo, with a lovely landscape and great opportunities for recreation and leisure.

Ringerike Kommune [Norwegian]Tourist Info page can be translated to English

Go Norway [Tourist and travel information.

RingeriksPorten Newspaper, in Norwegian but can be translated to English

Updated on 28 October 2010